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Movie Info

It's been said that relativity defines human experience -- who, where, when, yours, mine, theirs -- and by chance or design, it's all relative. Ray meets Helen during a random collision of altered fates. They are strangers, over 60, lonely, and luckless. He hit rock bottom in the big city, and she found it on a small farm. It's a struggle for both of them to not to give up. But then separately and without warning, they become overwhelmed by unrelated and extraordinary events.

Genre:

romance, drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Alan Rudolph
Producer:

Ernst Etchie Stroh, Steven J. Wolfe
Writer:

Alan Rudolph
Release Date (Theaters):

May 4, 2018 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

May 4, 2018
Runtime:

1h 40m
Production Co:

Moonstone Entertainment, Sneak Preview Entertainment

Cast & Crew

Keith Carradine
Ray

Sondra Locke
Helen

Keith David
Harve

Samantha Mathis
Mary

Jennifer Tilly
Ginger

Joshua Johnson-Lionel
Andre

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Critic Reviews for Ray Meets Helen

All Critics (7) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (4)

Moviegoers expecting a sprightly golden-years romance have come to the wrong place. So have those looking for a moody but credible reflection on decades of regrets.

May 7, 2018 | Full Review…

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
Comprising multiple, loosely interwoven plot threads united as much by the characters' lyrical speech patterns as their end-of-life longings, "Ray Meets Helen" has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies.

May 3, 2018 | Full Review…

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
While it bears many of the thematic and stylistic hallmarks that made Rudolph a reliable figure on the '80s indie scene with such films as "Choose Me" and "Trouble in Mind," this mannered character study comes across as more affected than affecting.

May 2, 2018 | Full Review…

Michael Rechtshaffen
Los Angeles Times
After 15 years away from the cinema, Alan Rudolph reminds one of the suggestive potency of his films.

April 30, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
Trying to balance whimsical romantic fantasy with a melancholy examination of guilt and regret, the film struggles to make its characters likeable or believable.

January 4, 2019 | Full Review…

Todd Jorgenson
Cinemalogue
"Ray Meets Helen is political in the sense that matters most. It goes beneath the surface of its characters' differences to show what they have in common - what makes them soul mates."

June 26, 2018 | Full Review…

Armond White
National Review
Sadly, the magic doesn't happen this time for Alan Rudolph, a very special filmmaker whose specialty has always been romance among the lost.

May 4, 2018 | Full Review…

David Noh
Film Journal International